On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Steven Pierce wrote:
>
> OK.. Let me try this again. The last time I did this I was told by
> the list that I could not send a message like this because it was
> admin related. Why is behond me..
>
>
>
> Good Evening All,
>
> I have a RH 6.1 server. It has been off for about 2 weeks now. I am
> trying to reboot it, but when I do it just get through POST and then
> reboots again. This keeps happening, in the past it has done this.
> It has always been a drive out of order, I have checked this.
>
> It figures that when it rain it pours. I have a project due on Monday
> and now this is happening. HELP....
>
> I am not getting LILO message at all. It gets to the point that it
> should boot LILO and does not. How can make sure that LILO is there??
>
> I am a newbie, sorry for the dumb question..
>
> Steven
>
About the only way I know of to check if LILO is still there is to boot
off a floppy and check the boot record with a disk editor program. But
you don't realy need to check if LILO is still there. If you made a boot
disk then you can boot with that, and run LILO - it will reinstall itself,
so even if it is corrupted, that will fix things.
If you didn't make a boot disk, it gets a bit harder. You can use the
install disk and pick rescue. If you don't know your root partition, you
can use fdisk to find it. Then mount it on /mnt, and run "lilo -r /mnt"
and it will restore LILO for you.
I just hope you system will boot from a floppy, and that you can still
access the hard drive. It sounds like you have some type of hardware
problem, but maybe you are lucky, and only the MBR on the hard drive is
corrupted.
Mikkel
--
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
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